WolffTL

Career

Collecting localities

Literature

Wolff, Torben Lunn

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1919, Copenhagen, Denmark.

career:

Was educated at the University of Copenhagen; Cand. mag. (zoology) 1947. He was a member of the Atlantide Expedition to West Africa 1945-46, the Galathea Expedition 1950-52, and the Danish Rennell Expedition 1951.¹

Collecting localities:

With the Noona Dan Expedition (see there for Itinerary, Collections, etc.)² he collected some botanical specimens in Yalon (Mussau, Bism. Arch.) and Rennell (Solomon Is.) in 1962. In 1965 and 1966 some more specimens in the Solomons.

literature:

(1) Author of ‘The Natural History of Rennell Island’ (1955).
(2) T. Wolff: ‘The Noona Dan Expedition’ (Nature 198, 1963, p. 1044-1045).

	Career Collecting localities Literature
	Wolff, Torben Lunn
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1919, Copenhagen, Denmark.
	career: Was educated at the University of Copenhagen; Cand. mag. (zoology) 1947. He was a member of the Atlantide Expedition to West Africa 1945-46, the Galathea Expedition 1950-52, and the Danish Rennell Expedition 1951.¹
	Collecting localities: With the Noona Dan Expedition (see there for Itinerary, Collections, etc.)² he collected some botanical specimens in Yalon (Mussau, Bism. Arch.) and Rennell (Solomon Is.) in 1962. In 1965 and 1966 some more specimens in the Solomons.
	literature: (1) Author of ‘The Natural History of Rennell Island’ (1955). (2) T. Wolff: ‘The Noona Dan Expedition’ (Nature 198, 1963, p. 1044-1045).